USA sends passengers to Nebraska
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The CDC confirmed on Friday that Americans on the MV Hondius — a Dutch cruise ship — will quarantine in Nebraska. A hantavirus outbreak hit that ship. One key question still stands.
CDC officials are sending teams to the Canary Islands. The ship docks there on Sunday. Those teams will then escort American passengers to Nebraska’s National Quarantine Unit.
The University of Nebraska runs that facility. They stated their medical teams are ready. The Nebraska Biocontainment Unit and National Quarantine Unit are staffed.
They will “safely provide care while protecting staff and the community”. This quarantine unit is federally funded with 20 beds — the only one in the US. It treats people exposed to highly dangerous diseases.
The Nebraska Biocontainment Unit and National Quarantine Unit sit in Omaha. You’ll find them at the UNMC Training, Simulation and Quarantine Center. The building is inside the Drs Erwin G & Dorothy Balbach Davis Global Center.
The number of confirmed cases keeps rising.